North Carolina State fell flat in its 2026 season opener at Charlottesville, Virginia. The home team dominated the Pack in a 34-8 defeat. QB CJ Bailey, who accounted for 3,320 yards and 31 touchdowns last year, struggled in this one. Bailey completed only 12 of his 23 pass attempts for 84 yards and an interception. […]

TCU opened the season with a 15-10 loss to North Carolina in Dublin, Ireland. Carolina's defense held TCU to 286 yards of offense. RB Jeremy Payne had 142 of those yards on 25 carries. Payne showed why he was a first-round pick in every draft with his tough running in a losing effort. Jon Denman […]

North Carolina's offense sputtered in 2025, but that was likely to change with former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino coming in as the offensive coordinator. The star of the offense was former Ohio State TE Jelani Thurman. Thurman caught four passes for 94 yards in his UNC debut. He was featured early in the game and […]

News came down earlier this week that star USC wide receiver Tanook Hines would likely miss the game against San Jose State. That left a lot of targets open for USC's gaggle of true freshmen receivers. Both Trent Mosley and Kayden Dixon-Wyatt started the game for No. 14 USC. Mosley had a huge game, with […]

As expected, Arizona State is going into the 2026 season with Kentucky transfer Cutter Boley as the starting quarterback. Boley started 11 games as a redshirt freshman for Kentucky last season, completing 65.8% of his 301 passing attempts for 2,160 yards. He threw 15 touchdowns, but offset that with 12 interceptions. Boley won the job […]

We've waited months for this! College football is finally back! It has been a crazy eight months of free agency, court rulings, players breaching NIL contracts, players trying to breach NIL contracts, and even 2026-altering injuries in camp. We can finally put all of that behind us. College football dropped the "Week 0" bit, but […]

College football has always induced passionate arguments from fans. For over 100 years, the argument over who was the best team wasn't settled on the field. When BYU won the national championship in 1984, the big conferences were so mad that they began collaborating on ways to keep something like that from ever happening again. […]

Kansas named Isaiah Marshall as the starting quarterback for the 2026 season. His first start will come against Long Island on September 4. Marshall saw limited action last year as a freshman, completing all three pass attempts for 28 yards. He also had 15 carries for 160 yards. Marshall beat out Cole Ballard for the […]

The preseason polls are out for both the AP and the Coaches Polls. Our preseason top 25 is also out, so we'll go through the discrepancies between our poll and the publicly released ones. I did a piece like this last year. As with any preseason polls, there is right, and there is wrong. I […]

On Tuesday, it was reported that Alabama defensive lineman Jeremiah Beaman (knee) was injured in Sunday's practice. On Wednesday, it was revealed that Beaman suffered a season-ending ACL tear. Beaman started the season opener against Florida State in 2025 but didn't record any stats. He tore his ACL in practice the following week and missed […]

Former Boston College and Florida State quarterback Thomas Castellanos has committed to Texas Tech, according to On3. Castellanos was granted a temporary restraining order against the NCAA for a fifth season of eligibility last week. Castellanos played sparingly at Central Florida as a freshman in 2022 before transferring to Boston College in 2023. He started […]

We have waited over eight months for this! Where did the time go? Wait...no one is saying that. College football is finally back! I'll be with you every step of the way this season with DFS picks for every slate, ESPN College Pick 'Em picks, top 25 rankings every week, and every game picked against […]

The first AP College Football Top 25 Poll of the 2026 season dropped on Monday, August 17. These differ from the USA Today Coaches Poll since this poll is voted on by writers and not coaches. As with the Coaches Poll, 25 points are awarded for a first-place vote, and one point is awarded for […]

Wide receiver and track star Maurice Gleaton Jr. is no longer on the Arkansas football team. The three-star recruit in the 2025 class ran track and played on the Georgia football team (but didn't see the field) in 2025. He transferred to Arkansas in the spring. Gleaton transferred to Arkansas just to run track, but […]

Wake Forest named former South Alabama and North Carolina quarterback Gio Lopez as their 2026 starter. Lopez shined in his first year as a starter at South Alabama in 2024 with 2,559 passing yards and 18 touchdowns. He also ran for 465 yards and seven more touchdowns. His year at North Carolina in 2025 for […]

UNLV head coach Dan Mullen said that both Auburn transfer quarterback Jackson Arnold and 2025 Michigan transfer Alex Orji will play in UNLV's game against Memphis on Saturday. Arnold threw for 1,309 yards and six touchdowns with Auburn in 2025. Orji backed up 2025 starter Anthony Colandrea, who transferred to Nebraska in the offseason. Orji […]

Alabama wide receiver Lotzeir Brooks (undisclosed) was spotted at practice on Monday wearing a black, non-contact jersey and participating in drills. Brooks, who hauled in 32 passes for 441 yards and two touchdowns in 2025, was injured in practice last week and missed Thursday's intrasquad scrimmage. Coach Kalen DeBoer said that Brooks is "close to […]

Northwestern has named Michigan State transfer Aidan Chiles as its starting quarterback. Chiles and West Virginia transfer Nicco Marchiol were in competition for the starting job held by Preston Stone in 2025. Chiles threw for 1,392 yards and 10 touchdowns with only three interceptions last season for the Spartans. He also ran for 227 yards […]

The summer camps are coming to a close around the country as we get ready for the start of the season, which is only a week away. We've waited eight months for this! We'll revisit the power rankings as we head into the 2026 season. Some camp battles are decided. Some are still up in […]

Miami-Ohio has named Kansas transfer David McComb as the starting quarterback ahead of Miami's Week 1 game at Pittsburgh. McComb beat out 2025 Redhawks spot-starter Thomas Gostkowski for the 2026 starting job. McComb, a native of Edmond, Oklahoma, redshirted for the Kansas Jayhawks in 2025. He didn't record any game time for Kansas. McComb was […]

Houston transfer Zeon Chriss-Gremillion has been named the starting quarterback for the Tulane Green Wave. Chriss-Gremillion was in a camp competition with former Ball State quarterback Kadin Semonza for the starting job. Chriss-Gremillion started seven games in two seasons for Louisiana before transferring to Houston. Chriss-Gremillion started five games for Houston in 2024 filling in […]

Alabama interior lineman Jeremiah Beaman was injured in Sunday's practice. Head coach Kalen DeBoer told the media that they "have an idea" of what the injury is, but they are not disclosing it until they know the extent. The update on Beaman's status is expected sometime on Monday. Beaman is coming off of an ACL […]

One good thing about NIL is that it brought back college football games on gaming systems where you can actually use your favorite player and not have to know his number. It has also opened the door for fantasy football leagues, much like the NFL. The NFL has been wildly successful and has added to […]

The NFL version of fantasy football has been wildly successful and has added to the popularity of the game. College football has a few more barriers in place, not the least of which is the fact that CBS, ESPN, and Fox all have contracts with conferences. ESPN could still run CFB fantasy leagues, but others […]

We are happy to announce the sixth annual RotoBaller ESPN College Football Pick'em contest! I brought this over here when I joined RotoBaller, and it's a great way to match wits with fellow RotoBaller writers and readers! ESPN College Pick'em highlights 10 games per week. All you have to do is pick the winner of […]

The first major poll of the 2026 college football season has dropped. That means we are getting closer! We are under three weeks away from Week 0. That's not a bad thing! The USA Today Coaches Poll ballot is sent randomly to a selection of FBS coaches. The coaches then rank the teams from 1 […]

There are now 67 "Power Four" teams in college football, which accounts for nearly half of the FBS. There have been a lot of different quarterbacks to come through those schools. How do we go about deciding the best quarterback in each school's history? Is it the one with the most wins? The one with […]

College football is almost here! We've waited through eight long months of baseball (even though it was my first love), flopping, more flopping, the NCAA Tournament, the WNBA season, two months of NBA playoffs, and epic flopping in the World Cup. It's refreshing to get back to the best sport of all.  I do make […]

Conference realignment is all the rage right now as conferences look to monopolize good teams to get better TV deals and teams look for more security. Money has destroyed much of what makes college football special. The collapse of the Pac-12 and the radical changes in the Big 12 have led to many rivalry games […]

College fantasy football has been around, but it's quickly gaining popularity thanks to the launch of Yahoo leagues! They don't include all 138 FBS teams, but we do get 68 teams to choose from between the Power 4 Conferences and Notre Dame.  This is a new wrinkle to veterans of NFL fantasy football, so we're […]